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title: "I Am An AI Denier"
date: 2026-02-20T09:02:36+01:00
draft: false
---
This article is inspired by [this blogpost by Anthony Moser](https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html).
I cited it previously, but now seems the time to make a post akin to it.
I am an AI denier.
Unlike Moser, I do not openly hate on AI, but I actively deny it from my life.
Disabling search engine query responses generated by AI, GitHub copilot in my IDE of choice or chatgpt.com is not enough for me.
My `/etc/hosts` file blacklists all the modern platforms that push AI slop, such as reddit.com, youtube.com, arstechnica.com and others.
Denying the obvious is simply not enough.
But where do you get online news?
Don't you feel left out?
Aren't you at a disadvantage, since everyone is using AI now?
Anthony Moser is entirely right.
It's embarrassing for me to hear this questions.
People who ask them should feel ashamed of themselves for sparing no critical thought on their own use of generated content.
_To speak politely about AI, you put disclaimers before criticism: of course I’m not against it entirely; perhaps in a few years when; maybe for other purposes, but. You are supposed to debate how and when it should be used. You are supposed to take for granted that it must be useful somewhere, to someone, for something, eventually. People who are rich and smart and respected are saying so, and it would be arrogant to disagree with such people (Anthony Moser's blog)._
But as Moser is an AI hater, I am an AI denier.
And what surprises me the most is that people fail to notice the obvious, and are often surprised when I tell them I don't use it.
But here is a list of my reasons why.
The dangers of the [post-truth world](https://www.forbes.com/sites/iese/2021/06/19/a-post-truth-world-why-ronaldo-did-not-move-coca-cola-share-price/) with [AI generated slop on virtually every social media webpage](https://www.404media.co/pinterest-is-drowning-in-a-sea-of-ai-slop-and-auto-moderation/) and the [unconditional acceptance of its output](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chatbot_psychosis&oldid=1325425220) sometimes with [consequences absolutely not anticipated by the model designers](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murder_of_Suzanne_Adams&oldid=1326997937) are just simply ignored by the general public, which sometimes even unwittingly [treats AI on the same level as humans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect).
Journals [talk about programmers who do not use AI](https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/the-last-solo-programmers/) as the modern day [Robert Neville](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Legend_(novel)) from the well-known Matheson novel.
The beloved services which used to provide genuine, funny content disappearing, the rising plausibility of The Dead Internet Theory and the instant content generation drive the internet community towards a clear [downfall](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Enshittification&oldid=1338656342).
And it is apparently the AI deniers, that are wrong.
How can anyone stay blind to this?
The Byte cover magazine from 1977 shows this perfectly.
The cover author originally intended to depict the Altair 8800 as a window to the utopian future.
Nowadays, in 2026, I think the image resounds differently.
It is the screens that keep us preoccupied, shielding from the real world, keeping us engaged and driving us to generate and consume content that is nothing but harmful, yet advertised as beneficial.
It is the biggest lie of the 21st century, right in front of us, yet largely unnoticed.
While this post, a rant as you might call it, is certainly an attempt to frame my thoughts coherently, it is likely I will be updating it often.
My thoughts stand are they are written here.
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